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“A comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars

“You don't have to say ridiculous things twice, Holling. Once is more than enough.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars

“I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars

“Just swell.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars

“I lit a candle in a Catholic church for the first time that afternoon. Me, a Presbyterian. I lit a candle in the warm, dark, waxy-smelling air of Saint Adelbert’s. I put it beside the one that Mrs. Baker lit. I don’t know what she prayed for, but I prayed that no atomic bomb would ever drop on Camillo Junior High or the Quaker meetinghouse or the old jail or Temple Emmanuel or Hicks Park or Saint Paul’s Episcopal School or Saint Adelbert’s. I prayed for Lieutenant Baker, missing in action somewhere in the jungles of Vietnam near Khesanh. I prayed for Danny Hupfer, sweating it out in Hebrew school right then. I prayed for my sister, driving in a yellow bug toward California—or maybe she was there already, trying to find herself. And I hoped that it was okay to pray for a bunch of things with one candle.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars